Best SNL Movies

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Offering a stage for rising talent with just the right combination of youth, skill, ambition and idiocy required to work the almost 20-hour a day job, Lorne Michaels’ sketch comedy juggernaut has been a launching pad for generations of film comedy stars for almost 40 years. Inevitably, at least one of them will crack that rarified Hollywood circle while still working on the show week after week. Making movies is practically a job requirement of SNLers, and often it’s through that tight-knit community that those first movies get made.

Now, the hit-to-miss ratio of movies made by SNL players is about the same as the sketches on the show, and unfortunately plenty of stinkers, like It’s Pat or Coneheads, exist to stain the concept of an SNL movie. However, enough genuinely funny movie classics have come out of the Studio 8-H halls that we’ve decided to celebrate the finest SNL breakout movies with this list of the best ones.